Although applying the concept is interesting in theory, all trolling aside a foundational difference that makes this comparison nonsense is that *most* human's don't want the virus they contract whereas *most* Facebook users want to participate on Facebook until its usefulness expires. Facebook's usefulness has an indeterminate expiration that is subjective per individual (or group of like-minded individuals) whereas the virus is counter-useful. Now, if they were to apply disease patterns of a virus whose side effect were of varied usefulness to people, then we'd have a more productive comparison.

I can't wait for the Alamo Movie Drafthouse intro that encourages patrons to not text or talk or else "Curtis Reeves will shoot your ass".

Sorry, too soon?

Was that they were only willing to offer him $50,000, not even $60,000 in CALIFORNIA. Isn't $60,000 a year under the poverty line there?

Reading comprehension fail

That's how I read your post.

It helps when you RTFA.

Now when my new internet girlfriend wants to skype for the first time, she won't find out that the pictures I posted on my dating profile were faked from a google image search for hunk.

Hey lkcl, I don't know if this is a concern of yours, but I ended up having some fairly costly troubleshooting a few years ago with the original OCZ Vertex drives where the root cause was my laptop battery had degraded enough to where the OCZ wasn't getting the necessary voltage/current on boot-up or when the power was unplugged and it ran off of battery. The OCZ Vertex drive hardware wasn't well designed to handle not getting enough power (it was still receiving power) and totally and completely corrupted the flash to the point where it had to be sent back to OCZ. I think I did 7-8 drive returns and a laptop motherboard replacement until I finally figured it out. You might try that on the Intel S3500 and see what your results are.

Write an article and submit to ARRL's QST and join and post to the AMSAT mailing lists as there are quite a few keys there as well. Talk to your local amateur radio club and get the word out and you might even talk to your area coordinator.

No mod points available, but this is the most spot on post on the whole page. It's sad you got a score of 1.

What severely frustrates me is that they put these beautiful screens in ultrabooks, but they continue to insist on putting a paltry amount of RAM inside. This is nearly 2014 not 2009!!! I was moments from buying a Yoga Pro 2 the day they were released online, but the 4 Gig of RAM soldered on to the motherboard thereby ruining any chance of upgrading stayed my finger. I was also not keen on a lower end U processor that didn't support VT-d as I do a lot of virtualization. I'd eagerly pay major $$$ if I could get a lightweight, hi-res (> 1080), i7-4558U haswell proc (inludes 5100 Iris), with the max supported 16GB of RAM, but alas none of the manufacturers (even apple) are offering the right combination of top of the line ultrabook hardware.

I'm no rocket scientist, but perhaps this is just what we need to fix the moon orbit expansion problem.

Can't you see they're white and nerdy?

Could you not even be bothered enough to watch the entire article video I linked in my last post? Not only was the researcher able to suppress the leaf response through the entire plant using the same agent typically used to suppress a human's central nervous system, but he was also able to measure an electrical response throughout the plant slower but similar to an animal's central nervous system when he burned a leaf on that plant with a lighter.

Once again I think you need to reevaluate your qualifications. A central nervous system may very well not be the deciding factor of whether or not a living thing can feel pain or feel suffering.